BKNG vs. LOW, TJX, CMG, MELI, SBUX, TGT, CVS, PDD, ORLY, and MCD
Should you be buying Booking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Booking include Lowe's Companies (LOW), TJX Companies (TJX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), MercadoLibre (MELI), Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), CVS Health (CVS), PDD (PDD), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), and McDonald's (MCD). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Booking received 329 more outperform votes than Lowe's Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Booking an outperform vote while only 69.99% of users gave Lowe's Companies an outperform vote.
92.4% of Booking shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Booking shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Booking has a net margin of 21.81% compared to Lowe's Companies' net margin of 8.94%. Lowe's Companies' return on equity of -51.42% beat Booking's return on equity.
Booking pays an annual dividend of $35.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Lowe's Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Booking pays out 26.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lowe's Companies pays out 33.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Lowe's Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Booking. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booking, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Booking had 7 more articles in the media than Lowe's Companies. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Booking and 23 mentions for Lowe's Companies. Booking's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Lowe's Companies' score of 0.56 indicating that Booking is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Booking has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lowe's Companies has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Booking presently has a consensus price target of $3,876.96, indicating a potential upside of 3.52%. Lowe's Companies has a consensus price target of $253.59, indicating a potential upside of 8.53%. Given Lowe's Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lowe's Companies is more favorable than Booking.
Summary
Booking beats Lowe's Companies on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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